The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-21

on board the Cleveland ship by being
careful to keep themselves in the fore
castle and obeying orders. Their pres
ence is no longer desired on the quarter
deck.-Concord Monitor.
BY the death of Governor Washing
ton Bartlett of California, which oc-
Cured last week, acknowledgement
II. w. Waterman (republican) sue
ceeds him in the office, he being the
only successful candidate on the state
ticket of his party at the last election.
THE riot at Mitchelltown, Ireland,
in which several persons were killed
and large number wounded, was
doubtless precipitated by the action of
the British government in attempting
to suppress the Irish National League.
The acrimonious debate upon the affair
in parliament has widened the breach
between the government and the peo-
pie of Ireland.
THE Charleston Ne,oS and Courier
and the Nashville American have come
out squarely against the proposition to
parade Jeff. Davis about the South
again, especially at the time when
President Cleveland is expected to visit
that section. Both papers, having a
large stock of prudence on hand, fear
that the effect would be to damage the
democratic party.
For the sincere civil service reformer
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trail of the President, and keep his con-
science, has been difficult task. The
path of reform, as trodden by Cleve-
land, is like. the Virginia fence, so
crooked that in crawling through it one
always comes out on the same side
and that side is the wrong side OF re-
form. boston Traveller.
ILLINOIS has a compulsory educa-
ton law and Tolono in that state has
resolved to test its virtue. If children
of school age are there discovered in
the streets during school hours they
are arrested and locked up, unless they
can furnish good reasons for their de-
linquency. 1t is said that this is the
first serious attempt ever made in
Illinois to enforce the statute.
THE republican party need throw
away no effort on Mr. Curtis. He is
for Cleveland first, last and all the
time, though he has virtually admitted
that Mr.. Cleveland as a reformer is a
failure. The duty of the republican
party is to nominate thoroughly re-
publican candidate on a thoroughly re-
publican platform. The end of indie
pendentism has been reached. Boston
Traveller.
Hon. WILLIAM H. WALKER of Lud-
low, associate justice of the supreme
court of Vermont, has resigned on ac-
count of i'll health. He was elected in
1884 and reelected last year. We I'M
derstand that he is afflicted with some
incurable form of spinal disease. He
is an able lawyer, and his retirement
from the bench will be widely regretted.
Judge Walkers successor is Hon.
James M. Tyler of Brattleboro.
WE are now paying at least S12,-
100000 and perhaps SIG, 100000 year
for foreign criminals, between S5,000,-
600 and S6,000,000 for foreign insane
and as much or more, probably more,
for fOreign-born paupers. In all not
less than from $50 900 900 TO $50 zoo. ZOO
are spent annually in the support of
foreign-born immigrants, whom every
one agrees should never have been per-
mitted to Observation-Disclosures Press.
THE Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union of Vermont, in their annual
meeting in Woodstock, adopted, by a
vote of sixty to fifty-two, the follow
ing: " Resolred, That we endorse the
position of the National Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, with refer
ncee to extending prayers and infu-
ences to the prohibition party" The
debate was quite warm. The action OF
the union is a mistake, which it will
realize in due time.
MURAT HALsTEAD, as he stepped
ashore from the steamer that had
brought him from Europe, remarked
am not able to answer the question
whether Mr.. Blaine will be the next
republican candidate for the presidency
of the United States, and the question
whether he will or will not seek to be
the nominee of the party may depend
even more upon his enemies than upon
his friends. They may think that they
have downed him completely, but thai
depends"
DIR. AUSTIN FLINT, in paper be-
fore the medical congress, held that
alcohol is valuable agent in the treat
ment of fevers. But doctors must re-
gard alcohol as they do other poisons
for what it is worth in their practice
People who use alcohol as a beverage
need not take encouragement from DIR
Flint's opinion, unless they propose tC
have constant run of fever. Doubt
less DIR. Flint would say that alcoho
had better not be taken at all, eXcep
upon medical advice and in critica
cases.-SprinQfeld Union.
IT was frequently stated in the col
umns of the republican press in 1888
that the independents joined the demo
cratic forces because of their free-tradt
affiliations rather than for their fea
that Mr.. Blaine would not make gooC
president. AS a further proof of thi'
statement il is to be noted that upof